Podcast: Roundtable Discussion - Moving Your Higher Ed Instruction Online in a Hurry

When the world changes dramatically, it's important to lean on each other. Our panel of geospatial friends from around the US offer their insights on getting your class online quickly. Whether you're Mac or Windows...Higher Ed or K-12...there is a wealth of information here related to delivering instruction online. We discuss communication and online presence, utilizing existing resources, technology consideration, resources (also see below), and tips & tricks.

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Topic Timing (if you want to jump ahead to something in particular):

2:52 Communication & Online Presence
16:02 Don't Reinvent the Wheel
39:40 Technology Considerations
58:24 Resources
1:13:26 Tip & Tricks

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Resources

General Online Instruction & Tools links

From the DirectionsMag vault:

Distinguished Geospatial Speaker Series: Implementing Open Geography Education https://www.directionsmag.com/webinar/9446
Education articles & podcasts: https://www.directionsmag.com/topic/2
Education webinars - https://www.directionsmag.com/webinars?itemTypeIds=&query=&start=19&topicIds=2#items
The Expanding Reach of Geospatial Intelligence: Lessons Learned from 21,000 Students - https://www.directionsmag.com/webinar/4464
MOOCs, Maps, and the Geospatial Revolution - Sharing the digital classroom with 48,000 students https://www.directionsmag.com/webinar/4501

ESRI-based Curriculum suggestions

John Nelson of Esri’s Education team shared via Twitter an announcement of the Esri Cartography MOOC materials, data and links to YouTube videos were made available to all educators in this transition. http://esriurl.com/cartomooc
Esri Free and fairly short Lessons http://learn.arcgis.com
Esri Training (most education licenses have licenses for this) - http://training.esri.com (Don’t recreate a wheel, look through existing Learning Plans, adopt, adapt or even have students create their own plan and submit it for your review for the remainder of the semester https://www.esri.com/training/learning-plans/ )
Educator Support webinar https://community.esri.com/community/education/blog/2020/03/16/covid-19-educator-support-enabling-remote-access-to-arcgis-in-higher-education-webinar?et=watches.email.blog
Esri's Education Page: https://www.esri.com/en-us/industries/education/overview
Instructional Resources: https://www.esri.com/en-us/industries/education/schools/instructional-resources
Esri Press books will be available through the VitalSource Helps program starting on Monday, March 23. Some basic info – see the FAQ link for more details. Students will have access to up to 7 titles of their choice (from any publisher, but a total of 7 titles)
Students have to sign up with VitalSource and access e-books through Bookshelf using their school-assigned email.
Access is provided through May 25, 2020. After that, the e-book(s) will disappear from their Bookshelf library. Notes will still be downloadable
FAQ for students/educators is here: https://support.vitalsource.com/hc/en-us/articles/360044467674-Student-and-Instructor-Frequently-Asked-Questions

Joseph's suggestions

Joseph Kerski's blog of essays of data sources and societal considerations around GIS and spatial data: https://spatialreserves.wordpress.com
Joseph Kerski's YouTube channel on GIS in education https://esriurl.com/ourearth including new video on Ethics in GIS.
The UCGIS Body of Knowledge. https://gistbok.ucgis.org/
COVID Esri GIS support page: https://community.esri.com/community/education/content?filterID=contentstatus%5Bpublished%5D%7Ecategory%5Bcovid-19-educator-support%5D
Moving your course to distance learning, highlighting the attachment: https://community.esri.com/community/education/blog/2020/03/16/moving-your-course-to-distance-learning
Opportunity to move to SaaS: https://community.esri.com/community/education/blog/2020/03/17/covid-19-educator-advice-opportunity-to-move-to-saas
Teaching about coronavirus with maps, data, and dashboards: https://community.esri.com/community/education/blog/2020/03/16/teaching-about-the-coronavirus-covid-19-with-web-maps-dashboards-and-infographics
Connecting surveys, maps, dashboards, and story maps: https://community.esri.com/community/education/blog/2020/03/13/lesson-connecting-surveys-maps-dashboards-and-story-maps
Using the photos with locations tool: https://community.esri.com/community/education/blog/2020/03/10/using-photos-with-locations-tool-in-education
Office hours: https://community.esri.com/community/education/blog/2020/03/18/covid-19-esri-educator-support-office-hours
FAQ for students/educators is here: https://support.vitalsource.com/hc/en-us/articles/360044467674-Student-and-Instructor-Frequently-Asked-Questions

Rich's suggestions

"Are Hospitals Near Me Ready for Coronavirus? Here Are Nine Different Scenarios" https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/covid-hospitals
GeoTech Center: https://geotechcenter.org
IGETT http://www.igettremotesensing.org/

Shannon's suggestions

Quick overviews created by Shannon (creative commons - use them, change them, edit them):
Creating data using Drag Drop Map (links out to some copyright friendly help guides too) http://tinyurl.com/dragdropmap
Getting started with Storymaps a google doc that links out to many resources about storymaps. (http://tinyurl.com/wmstorymaps )

Open Education Textbooks ( when the students have had to leave them behind)

OERCommons for textbooks https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/19/browse?f.search=gis&__hub_id=19 or https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks?term=Geographic&commit=Go
Open Textbook Library at University of Minnesota https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks?term=Geographic&commit=Go

Open Education Course Materials

MIT Open Courseware: https://ocw.mit.edu/search/ocwsearch.htm?q=GIS
Penn State’s Open course resources: https://open.ems.psu.edu/courses
GeoTech Center’s Education page: http://www.geotechcenter.org/education.html
Esri’s GIS for Teaching Portal: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/PublicGallery/index.html?appid=a6f143ecb65b47ef89e68d5f1e8d5683&group=a78f1ba7b81a44eca9cf6d5c1b7c523d

Other OER Resources

Use George Mason’s real-time federated search of OER content (google like, but for OER) Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
World Digital Library - Have students search map or maps and have a writing assignment (very cool resource) https://www.wdl.org/en/
Community College Consortium for OER has a great page on finding OER materials https://www.cccoer.org/learn/find-oer/

Exploring OpenSource:

Q- GIS Resources (GIS across platforms including Win, Linux, Mac)

DOWNLOADING

Main website: https://qgis.org/en/site/index.html
Recommend downloading the Long-Term Release (LTR) will be safest. (new features are found in the newer release, think beta so less stable). https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html

DOCUMENTATION & MATERIALS

A Gentle Introduction to QGIS: https://docs.qgis.org/3.10/en/docs/gentle_gis_introduction/index.html
Get started with Q-GIS https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/index.html#trainingmaterial
User Guide: https://docs.qgis.org/3.10/en/docs/user_manual/
Training Manual: https://docs.qgis.org/3.10/en/docs/training_manual/
Other Tutorials & Training Materials: https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/trainingmaterial/index.html
QGIS Tutorials & Learning Resources https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/learning_resources.html
More QGIS Tutorials and Tips including Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced. Also includes Network Analysis, Python Scripting with (PyQGIS) and web mapping, https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/
Spatial Thoughts Blog: https://spatialthoughts.com/category/qgis/

VIDEOS

QGIS 3 for the Absolute Beginner Video published by Klass Karlson (great outline links to parts of the video in his description) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCnNWyl9qSE
His full video collection is at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxs7cfMwzgGZhtUuwhny4-Q

Stace's suggestions

Finding Data: https://earthworks.stanford.edu/
HDX Humanitarian Data Exchange https://data.humdata.org/event/covid-19
Raster / Earth Observation https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets
Stanford Geospatial Center’s LibGuide for Remote Resources https://guides.library.stanford.edu/remotesgc
OBS Studio https://obsproject.com/

Have more questions? Contact our panel

Hashtags: #SOSTeachGIS, #GIS, #GISchat, #TeachOnline

Joseph Kerski, Education Manager, Esri jkerski@esri.com
Stace Maples, Geospatial Manager, Stanford University stacemaples@stanford.edu
Miriam Olivares, GIS Librarian, Yale University miriam.olivares@yale.edu
Rich Schultz, Associate Director and Co-PI, National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence richardbschultz720@gmail.com
Shannon White, GIS Certificate Coordinator, William and Mary shwhite@wm.edu

More suggestions for our resources? email us editors@directionsmag.com